ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 3

ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE

OLD BOYS MEET

The annual meeting of the St. Patrick's College Old Boys' Association was held in the college, Cambridge Terrace, last night. In the absence of the president, Mr. Bernard McCarthy, of Hawera, Mr. D. W. Madden presided. The rectors o£ the colleges at Wellington and Silverstream Were present as joint patrons. The annual report mentioned with gratification the extent of the collet rolls, in. 1932 there being 202 day boys at .Cambridge Terrace and ISO boarders and -o day boys at Silverstream T,m wr% Waynatle t0 the fact that in June, 1035 St Patnck's College, Wellington, would celebrate its golden jubilee. Several speakers .tressed the necessity for an extension of the membership roll, and the old boys were urged to take a more active interest iu college gatherings, to tvf C, h? lri? r an ™adS eulogistic reference to the late Mr. M. J. Crombie, who was president of the association at the tima of his death, and as a mark of respect to his memory those • present stood ia

Addresses were given by the Very Rev Fathers J. W. Dowling, S.M., and A. J Cullen, rectors of the city cbllega and^ Silverstream respectively. The following- officers -were electedPresident, Mr. Bernard McCarthy (rlawera)j; vice-presidents. Messrs. J J. T ? U?e^D^ P- F" MeEvedy (Welling, ton) K o Donoghue (Hastings), A. M. Ongley (Palmerston North), and fiir Cyril Ward (Chnstchurch); hon. treasurer, Mr. K McParland; ion. secretary, Mr. B. ,?'■ • R- Mcparland, D. W. Maddea (chairman), and P. T. O'Connor.